Talk:Gregory method

Should this be a redirect to the single transferable vote page? The Gregory method is also quite a common term for determining climate sensitivity. I'm not sure

Should this be a redirect to the single transferable vote page? The Gregory method is also quite a common term for determining climate sensitivity. I'm not sure whether one of the two is more common than the other one. If they are approximately equally common, this should be a disambiguation page, right? Femke Nijsse (talk) 08:52, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

I agree that Gregory method in regard to STV shall deserve its own page, since there are multiple variations of this method used in practice, such as Tasmanian Hare-Clark ( a.k.a. "simple Gregory" ), "inclusive Gregory" used at present in Australian Senate, and "weighted inclusive Gregory", which, if I'm not mistaken, is at present in use in Western Australia.

Such a page shall supposedly:

  • describe the difference in these variations, possibly suggesting an explanation why these may exist ( in essence, the correct way to do calculations is the Weighted Gregory Method, however, it is rather difficult for manual calculations without a computer, and therefore various approximations exist historically )
  • clear any possible confusion in terminology: e.g. there is a Hare-Clark electoral system, which uses Clark's variation of the Hare method in regard to transferring surplus votes -- and is based on the method suggested by J.B. Gregory ( as ascribed by E.J. Nanson ); furthermore, it uses a so-called "simplified" Gregory method, based on Droop's suggestion ( not to be confused with Droop quota ), see below ;
  • do proper internal linking ( e.f. refer to Hare-Clark page , STV counting , Australian section on the page describing the history of the Single Transferable Vote, and may be some other pages referred in the latter section.
  • add external links as well -- most importantly to section 20 of Tasmanian Report of Committee on General Election 1909 , which explains "the last parcel" method and gives the necessary attributions, -- along with other important references from www.prsa.org.au ( e.g. 1 , 2 , 3 , etc )

--Thread13 (talk) 02:25, 30 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

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